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Cotham market report BS6 6, Bristol
The standing BS6 6 (Cotham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 8,618 registered sales in BS6 6 (Bristol) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in BS6 6 (Bristol) sold for £395,900 in 2026, the median of 71 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £542,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,750 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,618 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BS6 6 is one sector of BS6 (Bristol): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BS6 6 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in BS6 6
71 sales were registered in BS6 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £395,900. The mean works out at £542,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in BS6 6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BS6 6 sales average about £5,750 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BS6 6 trades 39% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BS6 6 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £395,900 | £395,900 | 71 |
| 2025 | £397,500 | £407,005 | 194 |
| 2024 | £422,000 | £448,673 | 181 |
| 2023 | £445,000 | £488,946 | 172 |
| 2022 | £435,000 | £510,087 | 191 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 261 |
| 2020 | £430,000 | £557,934 | 201 |
| 2019 | £356,200 | £466,893 | 172 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 186 |
| 2017 | £345,500 | £471,227 | 195 |
| 2016 | £327,600 | £458,316 | 216 |
| 2015 | £298,000 | £421,074 | 236 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 282 |
| 2013 | £247,000 | £355,408 | 237 |
| 2012 | £242,800 | £357,371 | 194 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 202 |
| 2010 | £249,500 | £391,280 | 242 |
| 2009 | £226,000 | £363,297 | 199 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 184 |
| 2007 | £248,000 | £420,677 | 338 |
| 2006 | £234,000 | £406,194 | 378 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 351 |
| 2004 | £202,500 | £367,780 | 367 |
| 2003 | £183,000 | £337,130 | 336 |
| 2002 | £172,800 | £325,122 | 393 |
| 2001 | £141,000 | £271,065 | 399 |
| 2000 | £125,500 | £246,294 | 353 |
| 1999 | £104,000 | £207,267 | 411 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 415 |
| 1997 | £70,500 | £144,581 | 434 |
| 1996 | £67,800 | £142,987 | 358 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 269 |
In cash terms the typical BS6 6 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £395,900 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 168%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BS6 6 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+22.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 71 BS6 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 364 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around BS6 6
BS6 6 falls under Bristol, City of, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,883 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,224 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,552 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bristol, City of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,883 a month is £22,596 a year, which against the £395,900 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
BS6 6 (Cotham): the questions that come up
Is BS6 6 (Cotham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS6 6 (Cotham)?
Are property prices falling in BS6 6 (Cotham)?
Are BS6 6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in BS6 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 196 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS6 district, not just BS6 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BS6 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BS: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BS area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £360,000 | £480,000 (+33%) | £710,000 (+48%) | £960,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £267,000 | £310,000 (+16%) | £372,000 (+20%) | £500,000 (+34%) | £857,110 (+71%) |
| Terraced | £253,750 | £299,000 (+18%) | £367,500 (+23%) | £500,000 (+36%) | £757,500 (+51%) |
| Flat | £200,000 | £268,450 (+34%) | £415,000 (+55%) | £582,500 (+40%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BS area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BS6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BS6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS6 5 | £335,000 | 69 |
| BS6 7 | £640,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full BS6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BS6 6? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BS6 6's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working BS6 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BS6 6.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS6 6. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BS6 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.